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Posted on 08/20/2020 1:29:01 PM PDT by buckalfa
COLUMBIA, SC The South Carolina Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to hear what could be a landmark case over whether Gov. Henry McMaster can legally spend $32 million in COVID-19 federal relief aid on private school tuition grants this school year.
Oral arguments have been scheduled for Sept. 18.
A key question for the court to decide is whether public money can be used to subsidize private schools in South Carolina.
Last month, the governor was temporarily blocked by Circuit Court Judge Edgar Dickson from spending the money out of his discretionary education account, a total of $48.5 million. Dickson has not yet issued a ruling in the case. That suspension also blocked another round of spending for eight of the state’s historically black universities, because many of them are private.
The Supreme Court does not normally accept cases that have not been fully decided in lower courts, a process that with appeals can take years. However, the Supreme Court on occasion does accept cases of high public interest in an action which is called “original jurisdiction.”
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SC is strengthened by its robust private school system. SC children and parents would be even better off if we grew a free charter school system that could offer a seat to 100% of public school kids. The ideal system would reduce public schools to serving special need and justice system involved kids.
Very rare for the goovenair indeed.
I’m surprised he hasn’t emulated the nut bar in NC.
Usually when NC does something, especially stupid, SC generally follows.
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